Gordon Roberts, who, in 1989, first realised the significance of the animal and human prints which appear on the foreshore at Formby Point and has been studying them ever since, points out a set of prehistoric human footprints to a group of people on a guided walk on the beach.
Prehistoric footprints on the foreshore at Formby Point
There are four sedimentary layers overlying the stratum containing the footprints
Animal prints in the same sedimentary layer as the human tracks
Two sets of human footprints. Those at the top righthand corner head towards the sea; exiting at bottom left is a group coming away from the sea.
Low tide at Formby Point. The sea is a couple of hundred metres out from the prints (in the foreground). Just beyond you can see some tyre tracks. Two Land Rovers drove past and could easily have destroyed the impressions in the less than rock-hard sedimentary layer.
The prints are only twenty metres out from the sand dunes at the top of the beach
More prehistoric human footprints have been found along a 4 km strip of coast between Formby and Ainsdale that date back some 5,000 years.
Archaeologists today dubbed the discovery ‘sensational’, claiming it is one of the most significant historic footprint finds the country has seen.
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